Chiefs not considering benching Alex Smith for Patrick Mahomes this season

[Eleazar]

Originally Posted by Coach

The WCO is a complex terminology, for sure. So while I do understand the reasoning for Mahomes to not play this year due to the complexness of the WCO, the flip side of the argument is, wouldn't the learning curve somewhat speed up if he were to apply it to a real live game situation instead of learning it on the classroom with no on-the-job learning experience?

I don't see how throwing him to the wolves on a bad football team running an offense tailored to a different quarterback is going to 'speed up the learning curve'.